Nail-extractor.



E. REDMOND.

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Nmnxmcroa Speeiflcation o! Letters Patent.

' 'Patented Aug. .30. 1910...' 4

v Application flled February 21, 1910. Serial Ho. 545,241.

Toallwho'm'itmayconcem:

Be it knownthat I, EDMOND Rnmuom), a citizen of the United States,residing at Rochester, in, the county `of Monroe and 5 State of NewYork, 'have invented a new and useful Nail-Extractor, ofv which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for extracting nails from and drivingnails into boards, etc., and is designed as a substitute L for the moreexpensive ones now in com- `mon use. My invention enables one to drawout a nail noiselessly and without breaking the WoodI around the head asmuch as by the old means. It also serves to drive out a nail or spikelwhen the point thereof protrudes from a plank, etc.; it can be em-.

ployed to extract nails that have been clenched.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side` elevation; ig. 2 is a horizontalsection taken substantially online H Fi 1; Fig; 3 is a front elevationof the ad]ustab1e claw;

and Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on the line b-b of Fig. 2. y

My invention .consistsof a tubeA A, 'a plunger B fitted loosely in thetube, and' a movable claw E adjustable on the "tube.

The edge of the tube on one end is sharpened and provided with a cleft Dlike that in ordinary tack pullers. In use the sharp i edge of the 'tubeis to be vemployed as a gouge to cut away the wood at the head ofthenail or to pry up the point of a. clenched tnail, 'which can then bedrawn by settin the cleft in the tube underthe nail ead'an prying on itwith the tube as a lever. When the nail has been started it can bepulledout 40 b means of the claw Iat the end of the tube to ether by dputtinga fulcrum block, as a bloc of woo and tu .under the tub'e-lever, or bymeans vof 'the movable claw on the tube,v using the latter as a lever tolift the nail.

To employ the device for driving back a protruding nail, the tube isplaced over the goint of the nail and the plun er driven own on thenail. Theend of t e plunger is provided with a cavity C into which the'pomt of the nail'will fit and thereby prevented from being bluntedvwhile being driven out. The tube, its bore bein' but a little greaterlvthan the diameter of t e nail, will prevent the nail bendin' under theblows employed vto drive it bac The plunger is to be expanded on the endwithin the tube a little more than its mean diameter. Wheli itisinserted in the tube, the latter is to be closed enough on it upper endto catch the expansion on the end of the plun er and prevent it frompulling out of the tul e, but not to prevent its easy movement in thetube. w I

The device can be employed to drive nails into hard wood, for thetube"wi1l prevent 05 the nails from bending under blows that.wou1d`distort them -if not supported by the wall of the tube.

Havin fully described my invention, what I c aim and desire to secure byLetters y Patentis:

In a nail extractor the combination of a tube and plunger, one end ofthe tube having a sharp2 edge whereby to pry up aU clenched. nai ;theplunger containmg a cav- 7 5 ityin its vend to receive the point 'of anail in the rocess of drivin it out; the plunger provided wit means toprevent them separating.

p DMOND'REDMOND.

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